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Tuesday, June 2, 2015

RIP Florentino Soria

RIP Florentino Soria

Florentino Soria, historic member of the Spanish cinema
has died

ABC

6/2/2015

He was a screenwriter, actor and director of Spanish
films.

A historic figure of the Spanish cinema, Florentino
Soria, has just died at the age of 97 years.He born in Gijón in 1917 and although he graduated in direction and
became part of that group he actually didn’t serve as such, except for some
short films he made.In his career he alternated
script writing, teaching, administrative and policy of Spanish cinema
management, history lessons and at the end, interpretation, as came to
intervene in “La escopeta nacional”, “Nacional III”and “Moros y cristianos”.

The facet of writer was the most cultivated.So it is to his credit "Calabuch"
(Luis Garcia Berlanga), "La vida alrededor" (Fernando Fernan Gomez),
"Descoyuntadas" (Pedro Lazaga), "El vagabundo y la
esterlla" (Matthew Cano), "La cera virgen" (Jose Maria I
invaded) or "La orilla" (Luis Lucia).At the same time he was an academic assistant principal at the Official
Film School and a deputy general manager of Film and Theatre. From 1970-1984 he
was director of the Spanish Cinematheque making it a great work. In 1996 would
receive the gold medal of the Academy of Cinema.

About Me

Born in Toledo, Ohio in 1946 I have a BA degree in American History from Cal St. Northridge. I've been researching the American West and western films since the early 1980s and visiting filming sites in Spain and the U.S.A. Elected a member of the Spaghetti Western Hall of Fame 2010.